Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] of the time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 2 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 3 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 4 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 5 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 6 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 7 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |
| 8 | I was helping Aunt Tone prepare stuff in the kitchen but had to give up when Lewis and Verity volunteered to assist as well , and then spent most of the time feeding one another little bits of food , goosing each other and going into sardinely-intimate huddles punctuated by low whispers , bursts of baboon-like giggles and convincingly porcine snorts . |
| 9 | Benjamin spent most of the time sitting in a chair staring at the guttering candle flame , whilst my sleep was racked by terrible nightmares of my visit to Montfaucon . |
| 10 | Ralph spent most of the time studying his newspaper . |
| 11 | Whatever the weather they spent most of the time waiting for fares , either at one or other of the Railway Stations or the cab ranks in Fisherton Street or Blue Boar Row . |
| 12 | We even looked under the ancient stalls the Templars once sat in , and I confess ( as is the wont of old Shallot ) I did little work but spent most of the time admiring the brilliant carvings on the misericord of each stall . |
| 13 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 14 | After a twenty minute delay Cyril took his place but spent most of the time smiling at the audience . |